SF Politics Safe Drug-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs' Back on the Table In SF With New Proposed Legislation San Francisco may try to follow the "New York Model" of turning a blind eye and providing some funding for "wellness" centers that allow consumption of illegal drugs under new legislation being put forward by Supervisor Hillary Ronen.
SF News Five Hospitalized For ODs on Christmas After Reportedly Doing Contaminated Cocaine at Japantown Residence Five people were hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, after they all apparently suffered accidental overdoses inside a residence on Japantown's main drag on Christmas Day.
SF News Narcan Everywhere: Haney Introduces Bill To Require Narcan In Bars, Gas Stations, Libraries, SROs Assemblymember Matt Haney is proposing a bill that would require bars, gas stations, libraries and SROs to stock the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan, though that state would pay for the supply.
SF Politics Progressive Supes Defy Mayor and Health Department Over Safe-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs,' Say They Will Open Plans to create a dozen "wellness hubs" around the city to replace the Tenderloin Center and permit safer consumption of dangerous drugs like fentanyl are stalled due to legal concerns.
SF News Mission District's Planned Overdose Prevention Site Scrapped by Mayor's Office The SF Mayor’s Office reportedly pulled the plug on the city’s first planned permanent overdose prevention site in the Mission, a week after shutting down the Tenderloin Center where onsite drug use spurred controversy.
SF News Sunday Links: CHP Arrests Man Wandering On Oakland Freeway, Seize Load of Fentanyl CHP in Oakland arrested a clearly high man wandering on I-580 who had a huge cache of fentanyl in his car, an acclaimed local jazz musician was killed in a train collision in Burlingame, and 'CBS Sunday Morning' looks in on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
SF News Mayor Breed, Supervisors Express Their Alarm Over Baby Exposed to Fentanyl, Possibly at Playground One father's post on Nextdoor on Tuesday night set off a cascade of media coverage Wednesday about a highly sensational — and scary — incident involving a baby accidentally ingesting fentanyl, possibly at a city playground.
SF News Baby Reportedly Ingests Fentanyl Found In Grass at Marina Park, Saved With Narcan A parent’s worst nightmare came true Tuesday after a trip to Moscone Park in the Marina, as a 10-month-old suffered a cardiac arrest reportedly after finding fentanyl somewhere in the park, and was saved using Narcan.
SF News SF Has Seen More Than 500 Overdoses This Year, Though That’s Down From 2020 and 2021 The overdose death count in San Francisco has declined since the height of the pandemic, but we’re still one of the most affected cities in the nation, behind Houston and Philadelphia.
SF News 50 People Per Month Have Died of Drug Overdoses In SF This Year, and Most Were Not In the Tenderloin Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, largely driven by the proliferation of fentanyl, continue to decline slightly in number from a peak in 2020. However they still remain at crisis levels, according to a new report from the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).
SF News Four People OD'd at the 24th & Mission BART Plaza Monday; Supervisor Says Health Department Should Do More SFFD paramedics responded to the 24th and Mission BART plaza Monday around 5:30 p.m. after four individuals simultaneously suffered from fentanyl overdoses.
SF Politics In Yet Another Declared Drug Crackdown, DA Jenkins Says ‘This is a War on Fentanyl’ DA Brooke Jenkins tried to send a strong message to drug dealers, but got her message mixed with Supervisor Matt Dorsey, with him saying it’s “not the War on Drugs,” and her saying “it is a war on fentanyl.”
SF Politics San Francisco DA's Office Formally Announces Potential Murder Charges for Fentanyl Dealers SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is taking another tough-on-drug-crime stance ahead of the November election that will determine if she keeps the job, stating that her office will pursue murder charges if and when they link a fentanyl dealer to an overdose death.
SF News Feds Issue Warning About 'Rainbow Fentanyl' Hitting the Streets There's some candy-colored, "rainbow fentanyl" now circulating out there, and federal authorities issued a warning that the deadly drug may be being marketed more to kids.
SF Politics New DA Jenkins Announces First Actual Policy Changes, Vows Harsher Sentencing for Drug Crimes The first specific policy changes under new District Attorney Brooke Jenkins were announced Wednesday, and she vowed to revoke Boudin’s plea deals, and levy more charges on drug offenders.
SF News That Long-Planned ‘Sobering Center’ Will Finally Open Monday Near Howard and Seventh Streets A city-sponsored drug sobering center has been in the works in SF for more than two years, and it’s unclear whether drug use will be allowed on-site, or whether people will even access it. But it opens Monday as an 18-month pilot program.
SF News Oakland Man Is Latest High-Level Tenderloin Drug Dealer to Get Federal Sentence The feds continue to convict and put away drug dealers at various levels in the food chain who worked the streets of San Francisco's Tenderloin. And while others likely quickly moved in to replace them, this is perhaps taking some fentanyl off the streets?
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Office Makes Huge Fentanyl Bust In Oakland High School Parking Lot The sheriff's office announced Tuesday that deputies had arrested four individuals and seized a whopping 15 pounds of fentanyl.
SF News Second Santa Rosa Toddler In Three Years Dies From Fentanyl, Parents Arrested The parents of a 15-month-old toddler in Santa Rosa who was found unresponsive on Monday next to some suspected fentanyl and drug paraphernalia have been arrested.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 92 Pounds of Fentanyl Seized in East Bay Bust The FBI and police in San Jose are frantically searching for an abducted infant, the Chronicle's Editorial Board took an unexpected against the recall of Chesa Boudin, and 92 pounds of fentanyl likely bound for SF was seized in a big bust in the East Bay.
SF News SF Suing Walgreens for Creating an Opioid ‘Public Menace,’ and This Sure Changes the Whole Walgreens Discourse Could Walgreens be responsible for the very crime and drug issues they say are driving them out of San Francisco? A lawsuit from the city begs that question, and blames opioid overprescription.
SF News Mothers Against Drug Deaths to Install Billboard in Union Square Monday Calling Out SF's Fentanyl Crisis At least 98 deaths related to drug overdoses have already been confirmed this year in San Francisco — with 40% of those related to fentanyl consumption. Starting Monday, Mothers Against Drug Deaths will have a billboard downtown that brings attention to the city’s overdose and drug sales crisis.
SF News Feds Bust Oakland Man For Fentanyl and Meth Sales In SF's Tenderloin Federal prosecutors are highlighting a case of an arrest of a Tenderloin drug dealer who allegedly sold significant quantities of fentanyl, as well as a smattering of meth, to undercover agents in the last several months.
SF News Cocaine Laced With Fentanyl Blamed for Spike in OD Deaths, DPH Urges Use of Fentanyl Test Strips and Narcan Amidst a surge in fentanyl overdoses among people who thought they were using cocaine, the Health Department is emphasizing that it is easy to get free fentanyl testing strips and Narcan for safer drug use.
SF News SF Police Investigating Suspicious Death of 16-Year-Old In SoMa On Friday, San Francisco police were called around 6:33 a.m. to assist on-site paramedics in a possible drug overdose on the 600 block of Minna Street. Upon arriving, the victim — a 16-year-old female — was found dead, and the death has been deemed suspicious.
